October 21, 2009 3:50 PM PDT

Make a Windows 7 system repair disc

by Tom Merritt
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Windows 7 seems great at first, but what if something should go wrong. Hard drives do crash! It's not pleasant, but you should think about what you'd do in a data disaster. You need some sort of protection. And Windows 7 makes it easy to create what it calls a System Repair Disc.

Here's how:

Click the Windows button aka "Start."

Type "System repair" in the search box.

Then choose Create a System Repair Disc.

Put in a blank CD or DVD and choose the correct drive from the drop-down.

Press Create Disc.

And let Win 7 do the rest.

Now you're protected.


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by thydavidcome October 23, 2009 6:07 AM PDT
Very quick and useful process. I did this and messed with the MBR a few months later causing the bootloader to not work. I simply poped in the disk, hit repair. Boom within a few minutes everything was back to normal as if nothing happened.
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by benmarq October 24, 2009 5:36 AM PDT
video does not open
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by djnv October 26, 2009 8:59 AM PDT
i just tried this with the Windows 7 Home Premium upgrade and using a blank CD, i get this: "The selected Disc cannot be used. The selected disc does not contain a valid Windows installation. Do You want to try a different disc?" When i cancel it says "A system repair disc cannot be created without a Windows installation disc". That is odd...
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